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AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL
Established 1888
—Published by—
THE LEADER-TRIBUNE CO.
JOEL MANN MARTIN,
Subacription Price*
(Payable in Advance)
1 Year ............
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Member Georgia Pre**
Published every Thursday.
Entered as sec^nb-cla - t matter
the post offic - at Fort Valley,
Ga., under the act of March
3, 1879.
Were you “among the number • t
we mailed those little subscription
“billy dues” to the other day? Well,
would you like to get another one?
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It costs us a good deal in postage
and stationery and labor to keep on
reminding some of our good friends
that their'subscriptions are due. But
only a cheap skate has cheap friend:
that cost him nothing to keep. And if
we keep on reminding you it’s a sign
of our friendship and desire for
yours. Those whom we do not know
personally or in whose relation as
subscribers the quality of friendship
does not enter, we remind only once.
But should friendship be one-sided?
Come across or say something.
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Stand by the loeal merchant, The
merchant fills an important place in
small cities, when he is prosperous
the community prospers. He is the
main support of all public enterprises
and organizations. It is a difficult
period for the retail merchant when
prices begin to drop. He needs your
loyalty and co-operation as he never
needed it before. You may hear of
lower prices elsewhere, but you will
greatly weaken your community if
you turn from your home
and go to distant cities in quest
bargains.—Moultrie Observer.
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Don’t wait for the price of
Leader-Tribune to come down
you subscribe or renew your
subscription. It’s $2.50 to
old and new subscribers. And
that it’s the same price it was
years ago, compared with the price
cotton—and cheaper, compared
the price of everything else. And
swell chance it has of being
cheaper with the price of paper
labor going up. Many papers no
than The Leader-Tribune now
$3.00 a year and some we know
$5.00 a year. Don’t compare the
of The Leader-Tribune with that
other papers not in its
don’t put yourself in the same
with the subscribers to cheaper pa¬
pers. We arc classy folks here in this
blessed section, and should stick to¬
gether. We are sticking to you. How
about you?
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ANOTHER CIVIC MATTER
While the ladies of the Civic Com¬
mittee of the History Club are busy¬
ing themselves cleaning up and beau¬
tifying some of the ugly spots of our
fair city with the cooperation of the
Council Committee on streets and
sanitation and of Superintendent
Cornell and other citizens, and while
interest in the minstrel show these
ladies are putting on Friday night
with the cooperation of the Civic
Committee of the Chamber of Com¬
merce and splendid local talent is
rife, would it not be a good time for
the sanitary department to get busy
and abate some of the nuisances that
menace the health of the town?
There are some back alleys in the
city that are used MS dumping
grounds for garbage that breeds dis¬
ease and draws flies to distribute it.
There are places within the limits
where flies and mosquitoes are bred
the year round. A prominent citizen
remarked to us the other day that he
had never lived in a town with a more
splendid class of citizens than Fort
Valley has—nor one in which less at¬
tention was given to preventing the
spread of disease among the people.
Conditions which admit of two such
antithetical remarks about our town
should be eliminated. Places where
disease can originate and where the
pests that distribute it—flies and
mosquitoes—can breed, should be
done away with and more stringent
quarantine regulations enforced to
prevent the communication of dis¬
eases from person to person.
Disease is unnece*»ary and preven
table. It permanently impairs health
and efficiency, and enjoyment of life
No one, perhaps, ever fully recovers
from the effects of serious illness It
is very well to be able to congratulate
our friends, relatives or selves on
recovering: from illness—that is, not
dying of it—but it is far better to be
able to congratulate them or o u r
selves on escaping illness.
An ounce of prevention is worth
a pound of cure.
WE KNOW.
CAN THE SWEETS
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All the government press
and editors of daily, weekly
sundry papers have been urging
farmers to produce more food
Now they’ve gone and done it.
farmers and gardeners in Fort
and vicinity have raised more
potatoes and better ones this
than ever before. Consequence,
local market's glutted, and no
has provided for that contingency.
The Leader-Tribune has
times called attention to what
communities are doing in the way
providing sweet potato storage
curing houses. We have heard of
such provision being
here. But there are seven or
canning factories in Fort Valley
vicinity. Would it not be mutually
profitable for the owners of these
canneries and the farmers to use
them for canning the surplus of the
potato crop.
A systematic campaign, We be¬
lieve, was some time ago launched to
better acquaint the North and East
with the value of and methods of
preparing the sweet potato, so little
used in those sections. These sections
may not yet be clamoring for can¬
ned sweet “spuds,” but there must
be pioneers in every industry. While
the canning of sweet potatoes is not
a pioneer industry, it would be a new
thing for Fort Valley. But why not?
Peach growing and canning were
once new industries here.
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There is no prospect of an early
reduction in the wages of sin.—Cleve¬
land News.
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The broad way that leads to de¬
struction is still open to traffic, but
there are fewer wrecks occasioned by
skidding on the wet spots-—Cleve¬
land News.
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Just pretending to be rich keeps
some people poor.—Savannah News.
And practicing poverty makes
others rich.—Butler Herald.
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“WITHOUT ME YE CAN DO
NOTHING.”
1 can not grasp my neighbor’s hand,
Nor help him win the race
If I know not the Lord’s command
And power of His grace.
I can not for my neighbor pray,
Successfully entreat,
Unless I know the Truth, the Way
And live at Jesus’ feet.
I can not treat my neighbor right
If 1 myself am wrong;
Nor can i sing of life and light
Without the Prince of song.
W. C. Carter
Powersville, Ga.
TWO KINDS OF MILK
WHICH DO YOU PREFER?
Do you consider milk as “just
milk,” or have you discovered that
it is of different kinds? There are at
least two kinds which should be con¬
sidered by every consumer or cus¬
tomer. These may be described un¬
der the broad terms “clean” and
“un-clean” milk.
Milk is an exceedingly important
item in our present system of living,
and since the true value of it de¬
pends so largely upon its cleanliness,
it is highly important that the es¬
sentials of clean milk production be
understood by both milk producers
and consumers. It is necessary for
the producers to know these essen¬
tials in order that they may meet the
demands of their customers. And it
is well for the consumers to under¬
stand them in order to know what to
demand.
For clean milk, cows should be not
only healthy and in good physical
condition, but also sufficiently clean
to permit of milking without the
heavy contamination so often fol¬
lowing that process. Barnyards
should be kept sufficiently clean and
dry as to enable cows to walk freely
without becoming dirty. In fact, milk
should not be permitted to be sold
where such bad conditions cannot be
rectified. The entire procedure from
the milking of cows to disposing of
the milk should be governed with
great care toward keeping the milk
as clean as is possible.
Too much emphasis cannot be
placed on the importance of seeing
that the cows are healthy and in good
physical condition. Especially should
they be free from tuberculosis.
Scientific investigations show that a
certain percentage or human tuber¬
culosis is of bovine origin, the germs
being transferred through the use of
milk, butter and cheese. By means of
the tuberculin test it is possible to
detect cows with this disease and re¬
move them from the herd. Every milk
producer should have his herd tested
and discard any animals affected.
Customers or consumers should con¬
sider this matter when purchasing
milk.
Where herds are not properly in¬
spected by officals, milk customers
should visit dairies where they ob¬
tain their milk and observe for them-
THE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY. GEORGIA
nelves as to the physical condition of
the cows and the sanitation in hand¬
ling the milk.
D. G. SULLINS, Animal Husband
man,
Georgia Experiment Station.
Mo»t Article* Written Through the
Door Are Canards.
Shortly before press time some
1 young man, who has not yet been
identified, handed an item all written
up through the door to the effect that
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Sullivan, who
have been wedded a short time, had
an infant son at their house. Not
knowing the young couple the Chron¬
icle assumed it was correct and the
article was printed. It appears that
there is no foundation for it.—De
Kalb, 111., News.
FEEDING TESTS SHOW VALUE
OF BEEF-CATTLE RATIONS
A feeding test has been under way
at .Jonesboro, Ark., conducted by the
Bureau of Animal Industry, United
States Department of Agriculture, in
cooperation with the State experi¬
\ ment station and the First District
Agricultural School. The purpose is
to compare various rations for main¬
taining a purebred breeding herd
through the winter and to determine
the best methods of raising -pure¬
bred beef calves for breeding pur¬
poses. Then 10 Aberdeen-Angus, 10
Shorthorn cows, and 10 Hereford
cows, with one bull for each breed,
are being kept.
The work began July 1, 1919. The
calves in lot 1 had a ration of grain
in a creep in addition to their dam’s
milk. This lot made a daily average
gain of 1.37 pounds. Lot 2, on milk
alone, gained 1.06 pounds daily. Cal
ves and cows ran on pasture.
On December 6, the cows were di¬
vided into three lots and fed for 112
days on the following rations, with
the results indicated:
Lot 1. Corn silage, 40.58 pounds;
cottonseed meal, 1.71 pounds; wheat
and oat straw, 3.32 pounds; grain
0.04 pound. Daily average gain 0.61
pound.
Lot 2. Corn silage, 40.58 pounds;
cottonseed meal, 1.21 pounds; cow
pea and sorghum hay, 3.99 pounds,
daily average gain, 1.04 pounds.
Lot 3. Cowpea and sorghum hay,
16.38 pounds; wheat and oat straw,
2.83 pounds; coarse hay, 1.44
pounds; grain 0.12 pounds. Daily av¬
erage gain, 0.13 pound.
Biown spot of corn is present
throughout a large part of the corn¬
growing section east of the Rocky
Mountains. The disease is caused
by a minute fungous parasite. Dam¬
age may amount to 10 per cent, but
is lower in most sections. Careful
field sanitation, crop rotation, and
seed selection are recommended by
the United States Department of
Agriculture as an aid in controlling
the disease.
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THE ANT’S TOILET ARTICLES.
No creature is more tidy than an
ant, who cannot tolerate the presence
of dirt on her body. These little
creatures actually use a number of
real toilet articles in keeping them”
selves clean. A well-known authority
says their toilet articles consist of
coarse and fine-toothed combs, hair
brushes, sponges, and ^ven washes
and soap. Their combs, however, dif¬
fer from ours mainly in that'they are
fastened to their legs. The ants have
no .set time for their toilet operations,
but clean up whenever they get
soiled.
The Heat—A negro stole a ther¬
mometer from a white man’s shop
window in Alabama. Next day there
appeared a notice outside the latter's
window which read: "Will the person
who stole my thermometer kindly re¬
turn it, as it is no good for the place
to which he is going, for it only reg¬
isters 1 80 degrees.”
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BISHOP MIKEL COMING
Right Reverend H. J. Mikel will
preach in Fort Valley at the Episco¬
pal Church Sunday evening at 7
P. M. The rite of Confirmation will
also be administered.
A cordial invitation is extended tp
members of the other churches who
may not have services or those de¬
siring to worship with us.
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Paid For—The .customer picked up
a knife from the counter and handed
it to the butcher with a friendly
smile. “I don’t really want it,” he
said, “but if you’ll cut it off I’ll take
it along, with the rest. »»
“Cut what off?” demanded the as¬
tonished butcher.
"Your hand,” was the gentle re
ply- *« You weighed it with the sau
sage, and I like to get what 1 pay
for. • •
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The state of Oregon has been
asked to appropriate $50,000 to
handle the attempts to evade the
law by means of stills in various
parts of that state.
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Red-Blooded Men and Women
Seldom Sick
WATCH YOUR BLOOD CONDI¬
TION
If You Look Pale, Feel Gloomy and
Run-down, Take Pepto-Mangan
and Build Up
You see men and women who are
never sick. They work hard, look ro¬
bust, eat heartily and enjoy life.
They have plenty of rich, red blood.
That is why they are never ill.
People who try to get along with
weak, impoverished blood always
have a struggle. They go from one
sickness to another. Children the
same way.
If you keep your blood rich and
red you’ll enjoy full vigor. Disease
has little chance to develop in heal¬
thy blood. As soon as you feel run¬
down take Pepto-Mangan for awhile.
It will feed your blood with the in¬
gredients needed to create a good
supply of red corpuscles.
Pepto-Mangan „ . is . sold , i in . , both ,, li
quid and tablet form. Take
kind you prefer. They are alike in
medicinal value. But be sure you get
the genuine Pepto-Mangan-“Gude’s M
The full name, “Gude’s Pepto-Man
gan, M should be on the package. Ad
vertisement.
POSITIVELY.
“Have you heard my last joke?”
asked the Pest, as he stopped the
the Grouch in the street.
“I hope so,” replied the
as he kept on traveling.—Sou.
News.
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READ AND SEE IF
THIS APPLIES TO YOU
Here is an item from some paper
which the Oklahoma Extension
vice has picked up and reprinted.
are also going to publish it—in spite
of the fear that some of our
may sleep less soundly tonight after
getting these facts mixed up with his
conscience. Here is the item:
“A man will pay $225 for a bind¬
er, use it two days in the year; $65
for a planter, use it five days in the
year; $130 for a wheat drill, use it
four days in the year—and then let
his wife rub, rub, rub, on a wash¬
board all day long, fifty-five to sev¬
enty-five days in the year. A wash¬
ing machine will do its work as well
as a binder or any other machine. »»
If this item annoys you, you know
what to do about it.—Talbotton New
Era.
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A great relief map of tire world,
showing ‘ail known physical condi
tions of the globe, is being prepared
by the United States Shipping Board.
i £
! £
/ £ $
The First Dollar £ !
£ £
£ £
deposited in a Savings Account in the Citizens Bank £
of Fort Valley, acts as a magnet in drawing other dol¬ J £
lars to it. h
As the amount grows larger the desire to increase £ £
it becomes keener. £ £
The habit of saving soon develops from a duty £ £
into a real pleasure. rS
Our Officers invite you to open an account today.
I I Citizens Bank IS
£ £
of Fort Valley ! !
Capital, $100,000.00 Si
Resources Million Dollars ! !i
over a £
4 per cent, interest paid twice a year on Savings. 5 per cent, an¬ £ £
nually on Certificates of Deposit. £ £
£ £
NOVEMBER 18. 1920.
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Southern Railway System
(§) Tracked Trunk Line (§)
The Double
Between
(§> Atlanta, Georgia, and Washington, D. G. C©j
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<§) SINCE completion of the comotives with their tenders
double tracking and new con- have a combined weight of
(§>) struction on the Southern Rail- 520,000 pounds, wnich is more
way System between Washing- than twice the weight of what tv* ©
(<§) ton, D. C., and Atlanta, Ga. was considered the monster
@ the type of locomotive used has passenger engine of a few
@ been increased in size and pow- years THE ago. DESIGN of these big
er for both freight and passen
ger service. engines has been worked out <§>
(®) THE NEW DOUBLE- in the greatest detail, and they
(g) TRACKED line between Wash¬ are provided with every device
ington, D. C., and Atlanta, Ga,, for safety; as well as comfort
(§) a distance of 648 miles, over to the operators and efficiency
which operate many of the in operation. They use super¬ ©
(§) heaviest and most famous pas- heated steam, have power op¬
'g' trains in this country, is erated reverse gear and grate
senger
! ® of first class construction, and shakers, compound air pumps,
(q to keep pace with the increas- mechanically operated stokers,
X electric headlights and the la¬
(©) ing weight of heavy trains of
(g) steel passenger cars operated test safety appliances.
© over the line, we have put in THE USE of these heavy en¬
© operation over this entire dis- gines has resulted in a very (©)
(§) tance the heaviest and most uniform train operation, and
/g\ powerful type of steam passen- consequent satisfaction to ©
© ger locomotive in use. These lo- travelers.
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